Heart & Soul

By The Wiccan Tara
Rating: G
Summary: takes place right after 'I Will Remember You'
Disclaimer: doesn't own anything; story pure fiction; song copyright to author
Story copyright to The Wiccan Tara do not take.
Beta-reader: The Main Slayer

She, the Slayer, drove away from Angel Investigations. Buffy turned on the radio in the car and an old Britney Spears song was playing.

"I'm sitting here alone up in my room
And thinking about the times that we've been through (oh my love)
I'm looking at a picture in my hand
Trying my best to understand
I really want to know what we did wrong
With a love that felt so strong
If only you were here tonight
I know that we could make it right"

"I don't know how to live without your love
I was born to make you happy
'Cause you're the only one within my heart
I was born to make you happy
Always and forever you and me
That's the way our life should be
I don't know how to live without your love
I was born to make you happy"

At that, Buffy's eyes start to fill with water.

"I know I've been a fool since you've been gone
I'd better give it up and carry on (oh my love)
'Cause living in a dream of you and me
Is not the way my life should be
I don't want to cry a tear for you
So forgive me if I do
If only you were here tonight
I know that we could make it right"

"I don't know how to live without your love
I was born to make you happy
'Cause you're the only one within my heart
I was born to make you happy
Always and forever you and me
That's the way our life should be
I don't know how to live without your love
I was born to make you happy"

"I'd do anything, I'd give you my world
I'd wait forever, to be your girl
Just call out my name, and I will be there
Just to show you how much I care"

At the end of the song she is starting to cry, then the Slayer gets the feeling that she is forgetting something, but shakes it away and changes the station. A Vanessa Carlton song is on.

"Staring blankly ahead
Just making my way
Making a way
through the crowd

"And I need you,
I miss you
and now I wonder..."

"If I could fall
Into the sky
Do you think time
Would pass me by
'Cause you know I'd walk
A thousand miles
If I could
Just see you
Tonight…"

Again, the feeling comes, again she shakes it away, and again she changes the station. O-Town is playing on this one. But at least she has stopped crying

"I know when he's been on your mind
That distant look is in your eyes
I thought with time you'd realize it's over, over
It's not the way I choose to live
And something somewhere has gotta give
As sharing in this relationship gets older, older"

"You know I'd fight for you but how could I fight someone who isn't even there
I've had the rest of you now I want the best of you I don't care if that's not fair"

"Cuz I want it all
Or nothing at all
There's nowhere left to fall
When you reach the bottom it's now or never
Is it all
Or are we just friends
Is this how it ends
With a simple telephone call
You leave me here with nothing at all"

Buffy once again gets the feeling that she is forgetting something and once again, she
shakes it off and changes the station. The new station is playing Sarah McLachlan.

"I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories"

"Remember the good times that we had?
I let them slip away from us when things got bad
How clearly I first saw you smiling' in the sun
Wanna feel your warmth upon me, I wanna be the one
"

Buffy looks out onto the road remembering how things were before her 17th birthday.

"I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
"

"I'm so tired but I can't sleep
Standing' on the edge of something much too deep
It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word
We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard"

"But I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories"

"I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose
Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose
Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night
You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light"

Buffy thinks about what it was like during her senior year at high school before Angel broke up with her.

"And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories"

"And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
Weep not for the memories"

The feeling of forgetting finally gets to her, so she does a U-turn and heads back to Angel's office.

The Slayer walks into the outer office of Angel Investigations. Cordelia looks at her and says, "Buffy, what are doing here again?" but Buffy just walks past her.

"What was that about?" Doyle asks.

"I do not know, but I plan to find out" Cordy says.

After she closes the door into Angel's office, the souled-vampire looks up at her with a surprised look on his face and says, "Buffy what are you doing back so soon?"

"I think I forgot something here."

Getting even more puzzled Angel says, "What?"

"I don't know maybe my heart," she says as her eyes started to water, "and Soul." After the ex-cheerleader says that she goes to wipe her eyes and the Claddagh ring glimmers on her hand.

"Buffy….I..." Angel tried, but his soul mate cut him off.

"Angel, you own my heart and you're my soul. I'm not going to leave those things behind. Well 'cause I can't, you will own my heart 'til the of time and you have been and will my soul 'til the end of time" Buffy said though tears.

Angel just stood there and before he knew it, they were kissing. When the kiss ended Angel was about to say something but Buffy beat him to it. "I know what your going to say and I'm going to have Will do something about it, she is a much better witch now than last year," With that Buffy pulled her vampire back into the kiss.